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It's the right thing to do. A captain shouldn't desert his sinking ship

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    22 minutes ago, Demonland said:

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    Ha ha can’t imagine how happy cats fans would be 😂😂😂😂

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    9 minutes ago, BDA said:

    It's the right thing to do. A captain shouldn't dessert his sinking ship

    Very apt. The Cat's season was like a souffle gone wrong.

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    1 minute ago, Mazer Rackham said:

    Very apt. The Cat's season was like a souffle gone wrong.

    Fixed. Thanks Mazer

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    The dilemma for the Cats is whether to keep their chip-and-possession game, rack up the wins at Kardinia, and get walloped in finals again.

    Or change to a more bruising finals-ready style and have their senior citizens beaten up every week, then get walloped in the finals.

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    He’s a good coach but it will be interesting to see now what happens with the philosophy of not rebuilding through the draft. So far, they’ve been low key in trading, having given away a low key player and likely to lose Clark and Fort while possibly bringing in Ceglar and Stengle. Their first pick is currently 30. I can’t see them staying up near the top.

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    45 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

    The dilemma for the Cats is whether to keep their chip-and-possession game, rack up the wins at Kardinia, and get walloped in finals again.

    Or change to a more bruising finals-ready style and have their senior citizens beaten up every week, then get walloped in the finals.

    Surety the whole prelim finals record would be a signal to them that change is needed. Cats and media see this as a badge of honour. Sen callback yeyerday had plenty of calls about not renewing a membership etc. Unless change comes. 

     

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    53 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

    The dilemma for the Cats is whether to keep their chip-and-possession game, rack up the wins at Kardinia, and get walloped in finals again.

    Or change to a more bruising finals-ready style and have their senior citizens beaten up every week, then get walloped in the finals.

    You're assuming they make finals.

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    The question is he a good coach or has had good cattle because of the recruiting of Stephen Wells and free agency players wanting to play finals.

    In the 11 season to date he has coached Geelong to one premiership, the first after Thompson retired, with a team that lost the preliminary final to Collingwood the eventual premiers.

    Has now coached the teams to multiple preliminary finals 2011 winner, 2013 lost, 2016 lost, 2017 lost, 2019 lost, 2020 won and 2021 lost, it seems like a great record but is it the players or the coach.

    The Geelong team seems to be able to recruit good players in the twilght of their careers and then promise them they are a part of the premiership squad but fail to deliver 2020 they lost the qualifying final and had to get to grand final the hard way Richmond also did the same they were 15 points in front at half time but old legs become tired in the 2nd half of matches and lost by 31.

    The game at Geelong this year 44 points in front 10 minutes into the 3rd quarter and lost by 4 points, the preliminary final Melbourne  kicks 8 goals in the 3rd quarter and win by 83 points.

    He has not refreshed the side using youth mixed with experience but more old experience players disadvantaging players like Clark and Constable.

    I realise they lost Parfitt before the Preliminary final but they were the oldest team in the finals and MFC was the youngest.

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    72% Wiinning record in H+A, 69% with Finals included, totally happy to take the mickey out of him when he’s losing it in the box, but they are extraordinary numbers. I am impressed he is sticking fat, as those numbers are going to take a hit. He does seem cursed like Tom Haley though with finals and they should have had at least 1 if not 2 more GF in the last 10 years. However Geelong is making a logical decision and not throwing baby out with the bath water. Just too bad for him his tenure is extended right when they became our female Labradors.

    I also thought he was a dog of a player, Toby Greene standard, good but dirty, more so than Mitchell and Hodge, but I still respect his coaching, just don’t like the man, much like Hardwick.

     

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    With Mitchell out shopping his only decent experienced players and getting donuts, the only good thing about Hawthorn is they are not Geelong. 

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    If home and away seasons were valued more than premierships then Chris Scott would have a gold statue of himself outside Kardinia Park and would go down as a living legend.

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    Its important that nursing homes have good experienced management. The quality of care for ageing footballers is exemplary down there. 

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    The Cats are a long way off it now, there is little chance they can improve with a list of blokes who can hardly run out of a Bunnings let alone a full season. They could easily end up like the Pies in 2023.

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    I hope they get the spoon. What an embarrasing and deflated member of society Scott will be.

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    1 hour ago, old55 said:

    With Mitchell out shopping his only decent experienced players and getting donuts, the only good thing about Hawthorn is they are not Geelong. 

    I was thinking the same thing. Mitchell might have made himself look like a naive, incompetent newbie and that will hurt them, but he at least has the right idea.

    Signing Chris Scott for another three years is an endorsement of his top-up with senior players strategy. They’ve developed very, very little young talent as per rpfc’s post a month or so back. Once the team loses its competitiveness, it won’t be an attractive destination for those senior players. The fall will be accelerated as a result.

    The cliff is coming. Scott doesn’t see out his three years, and Geelong are set back further by not having recognised the need for a strategy change earlier. It is going to be magnificent.

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    Scott created this mess, so it’s his problem to fix. I like that he is sticking around to try and rectify it. Ross Lyon on the other hand.................

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    Tell you what, I wouldn't want to be the coach assigned to manage the rebuild three years from now.

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    Where’s that “what are they saying at Moorobool Street” link?

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